Does IFRS Information on Tax Loss Carryforwards and Negative Performance Improve Predictions of Earnings and Cash Flows?
Sandra Dreher, Sebastian Eichfelder, Felix Noth
Journal of Business Economics,
January
2024
Abstract
We analyze the usefulness of accounting information on tax loss carryforwards and negative performance to predict earnings and cash flows. We use hand-collected information on tax loss carryforwards and corresponding deferred taxes from the International Financial Reporting Standards tax footnotes for listed firms from Germany. Our out-of-sample tests show that considering accounting information on tax loss carryforwards does not enhance performance forecasts and typically even worsens predictions. The most likely explanation is model overfitting. Besides, common forecasting approaches that deal with negative performance are prone to prediction errors. We provide a simple empirical specification to account for that problem.
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On Modeling IPO Failure Risk
Gonul Colak, Mengchuan Fu, Iftekhar Hasan
Economic Modelling,
April
2022
Abstract
This paper offers a novel framework, combining firm operational risk, IPO pricing risk, and market risk, to model IPO failure risk. By analyzing nearly a thousand variables, we observe that prior IPO failure risk models have suffered from a major missing-variable problem. Evidence reveals several key new firm-level determinants, e.g., the volatility operating performance, the size of its accounts payable, pretax income to common equity, total short-term debt, and a few macroeconomic variables such as treasury bill rate, and book-to-market of the DJIA index. These findings have major economic implications. The total value loss from not predicting the imminent failure of an IPO is significantly lower with this proposed model compared to other established models. The IPO investors could have saved around $18billion over the period between 1994 and 2016 by using this model.
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Regulierungsdefizite und Reformalternativen der Gemeinsamen Europäischen Fischereipolitik
Steffen Hentrich
Contribution to IWH Volume,
aus: Deregulierung in Deutschland – theoretische und empirische Analysen – Tagungsband
2004
Abstract
Seit Jahrzehnten versucht die Europäische Union im Rahmen der Gemeinsamen Fischereipolitik (GFP) den ökologischen, wirtschaftlichen und sozialen Problemen der Überfischung und Überkapitalisierung der europäischen Fischerei Herr zu werden. Mit der Festlegung von Höchstfangmengen (TAC), technischen Vorschriften für die Fangtechnik, befristeten räumlichen Fangverboten, zeitlichen Restriktionen für die Fangaktivitäten sowie der Förderung des Kapazitätsabbaus und des Einsatzes bestandsschonender Fangtechnik hat diese Politik jedoch bislang nur an den Symptomen des Marktversagens einer kollektiven Nutzung der Common-Pool-Ressource Fisch angesetzt. Zudem hat die GFP mit der Subventionierung des Neubaus und der Modernisierung der Fangtechnik und umfangreichen Preisstützungsmaßnahmen zusätzliche Marktverzerrungen geschaffen und damit erheblich zur Verschärfung der ohnehin schon vorhandenen Marktfunktionsstörungen beigetragen. Dementsprechend ernüchternd ist die Erfolgsbilanz dieser Politik. Eine Reihe von Fischbeständen leidet unter permanenter Überfischung und befindet sich zum Teil bereits außerhalb „sicherer biologischer Grenzen“, die Rentabilität der Fischereiunternehmen wird durch immer geringer werdende Fangerträge und eine chronische Unterauslastung ihrer Fangkapazitäten beeinträchtigt. Das Resultat sind sinkende Einkommen der Beschäftigten der Fischerei, eine Verschlechterung der Arbeitsbedingungen auf See sowie eine Verknappung und Verteuerung des Fischangebots.
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The East-West-German Productivity Gap: Lessons from Firm-level Data?
Steffen Müller
Wirtschaftsdienst,
Konferenzband "30 Jahre Deutsche Einheit", März
2021
Abstract
According to national accounts, the East German economy is at only 80 % of West German labour productivity even 30 years after the fall of the Iron Curtain. This difference in aggregate labour productivity goes hand in hand with many of the economic and societal problems East Germany faces today. To understand the sources of the aggregate productivity gap, this study discusses recent literature on the East-West gap that applies granular firm and product level data. The evidence clearly shows the relevance of firm-level productivity differences for the aggregate gap and challenges common hypotheses derived from aggregate data.
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Endogenous Institution Formation in Public Good Games: The Effect of Economic Education
Martin Altemeyer-Bartscher, Dmitri Bershadskyy, Philipp Schreck, Florian Timme
IWH Discussion Papers,
No. 29,
2017
Abstract
In a public good experiment, the paper analyses to which extent individuals with economic education behave differently in a second-order dilemma. Second-order dilemmas may arise, when individuals endogenously build up costly institutions that help to overcome a public good problem (first-order dilemma). The specific institution used in the experiment is a communication platform allowing for group communication before the first-order public good game takes place. The experimental results confirm the finding of the literature that economists tend to free ride more intensively in public good games than non-economists. The difference is the strongest in the end-game phase, yielding in the conclusion that the magnitude of the end-game effect depends on the share of economists in the pool of participants. When it comes to the building-up of institutions, the individual efficiency gain of the institution and its inherent cost function constitute the driving forces for the contribution behaviour. Providing an investment friendly environment yields in economists contributing more to the institution than non-economists. Therefore, we make clear that first-order results of a simple public good game cannot be simply applied for second-order incentive problems.
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29.09.2016 • 40/2016
Joint Economic Forecast: German Economy on Track – Economic Policy needs to be Realigned
Thanks to a stable job market and solid consumption, the German economy is experiencing a moderate upswing. The GDP is expected to increase by 1.9 percent this year, 1.4 percent in 2017, and 1.6 percent in 2018, according to the Gemeinschaftsdiagnose (GD, joint economic forecast) that was prepared by five of Europe’s leading economic research institutes on behalf of the Federal Government. The most recent GD, which was released in April, predicted a GDP growth rate of 1.6 percent for 2016 and 1.5 percent for 2017.
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